A Valley Stream woman has lived in the U.S. since she was 6-months-old, but the 91-year-old only officially became a citizen today.Nina Krasnof arrived in

VALLEY STREAM - A Valley Stream woman has lived in the U.S. since she was 6-months-old, but the 91-year-old only officially became a citizen today.

Nina Krasnof arrived in the U.S. as a baby nearly a century ago. Her daughter, Leslie Pierno, says her mother just assumed that when her parents got their citizenship, she became a citizen too.

However, Pierno says it wasn't easy to prove since there was no paperwork showing that her mother became a citizen in 1929. Krasnof's citizenship had to be documented in order to receive Medicaid benefits.